PSY-3635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Working Poor, Nurse Practitioner, Indian Health Service
25 Oct 2017
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Parts of the health care system: primary care, emergency department, hospitals and specialty care, pharmaceutical industry, payment, health professions. First line: management of most conditions and referrals to specialists as needed. Family physicians, pediatricians, general internists, physician assistants, nurse practitioner. Emergency department: staffed and equipped to provide rapid treatment of a wide range of life-threatening and non-life threatening conditions, primary care for uninsured. Hospitals and specialty care: general hospitals are staffed and equipped to diagnose and treat a very wide range of conditions, safety net or charity hospitals. Payment: private insurance, medicare, medicaid, chip, va/military, uninsured. Think about this: you take an exciting internship in washington dc after graduating from vanderbilt, the internship is a great career experience, you have no health insurance, one day you are riding your bike. You hit a bump, lose control, fall off your bike, and break your. Affordable care act at a glance: extend insurance coverage to nearly all americans.
